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This question cannot be answered given the structure of the US Army in WW2. EVERY US Army battalion, and there were hundreds of them, had a EASY Company, and a BAKER, and a FOX, and a ABLE company.
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Bravo Company is actually Company B. Companies along with Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery Batteries us alphabetical letters to designate Companies/Batteries. Companies/Batteries are normally A, B, C, and etc. with the exceptions being the Headquarters Company/Battery and Service Batteries. Military personnel refer to their Company/Battery using the phonetic alphabet. A becomes Alpha, B becomes Bravo, C becomes Charlie and so forth.
During the Viet War, the US Army consisted of approximately four platoons per company: A line company (aka Letter Company) 1st, 2nd, 3rd platoons plus headquarters platoon; HHC (Headquarters and Headquarters Company) was ALWAYS the largest company...because it contained Medics, Mortars, Mess Section, Radar Section, Scout Section (Reconaissance Section), Anti-Armor Section (Anti-tank Section), Maintenance Section, etc.). A Cav Troop would be the same. An artillery battery might be divided into gun sections. A Headquarters company is almost always the size of about 2 or 3 letter companies put together. Infantry companies are twice as big as an Armor company (Tank Company). A US Tank company in Vietnam only had about 86 men assigned to it. A Grunt company might have 186 men assigned to it.
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